prosiopesisn.

Brit.

/ˌprɒsɪə(ʊ)ˈpiːsɪs/, U.S.

/ˈˌprɑsioʊˈpisᵻs/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: pro- prefix², Greek σιώπησις.

Etymology: < pro- prefix² + Greek σιώπησις taciturnity, in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on Ptolemy Tetrabiblos 160 (recorded in Hellenistic Greek in sense ‘veil, covering’ (Septuagint)) < ancient Greek σιωπᾶν to be silent (perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as swie v.) + -σις -sis suffix; compare quot. 1922. Compare aposiopesis n.

Grammar.

Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical structure in speech or writing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > ellipsis

ellipsis1621

suppression1728

prosiopesis1922

1922 O. Jespersen Lang. xiv. 273 We have what might be termed prosiopesis when the speaker begins, or thinks he begins, to articulate, but produces no audible sound till one or two syllables after the beginning of what he intended to say.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. x. 142 The subject must generally be expressed, and those few cases in which it is omitted, may be explained through prosiopesis, which sometimes becomes habitual in certain stock exclamations like Thank you.

1935 H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines 41 Whether such sentences should be considered as incomplete or elliptic or as aposiopesis and prosiopesis is a question of terminology.

1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising viii. 78 One marginally casual feature of advertising language is the occurrence of what..has been termed prosiopesis.

1983 Lang. in Society 12 153 The absence of sentence-initial material, sometimes called prosiopesis, is a long-recognized feature of various registers of spoken and written English.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prosiopesis
释义	prosiopesisn. Brit. /ˌprɒsɪə(ʊ)ˈpiːsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌprɑsioʊˈpisᵻs/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: pro- prefix², Greek σιώπησις. Etymology: < pro- prefix² + Greek σιώπησις taciturnity, in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on Ptolemy Tetrabiblos 160 (recorded in Hellenistic Greek in sense ‘veil, covering’ (Septuagint)) < ancient Greek σιωπᾶν to be silent (perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as swie v.) + -σις -sis suffix; compare quot. 1922. Compare aposiopesis n. Grammar. Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical structure in speech or writing. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > ellipsis ellipsis1621 suppression1728 prosiopesis1922 1922 O. Jespersen Lang. xiv. 273 We have what might be termed prosiopesis when the speaker begins, or thinks he begins, to articulate, but produces no audible sound till one or two syllables after the beginning of what he intended to say. 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. x. 142 The subject must generally be expressed, and those few cases in which it is omitted, may be explained through prosiopesis, which sometimes becomes habitual in certain stock exclamations like Thank you. 1935 H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines 41 Whether such sentences should be considered as incomplete or elliptic or as aposiopesis and prosiopesis is a question of terminology. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising viii. 78 One marginally casual feature of advertising language is the occurrence of what..has been termed prosiopesis. 1983 Lang. in Society 12 153 The absence of sentence-initial material, sometimes called prosiopesis, is a long-recognized feature of various registers of spoken and written English. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922
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